kill
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Does this AI want to kill you, neg you or put you through a mattress?
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
When used together, the drugs substantially increased the ability of gamma delta T cells to kill cancer cells in laboratory experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Blue-light lasers then zap and kill the lice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
"These are questions that I think the American public needs to grapple with more meaningfully than how we are going to kill people," Maher said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Wolf left the Den and loped up to the ridge above the valley to catch the smell on the wind: a powerful smell of rotten prey like a very old kill -except that it moved.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Effective-altruist organizations are “very committed to this concept of catastrophic risk and how do you prevent it. And one of the big areas of catastrophic risk would be AI kills everyone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Compared with other illnesses, the plague isn’t much of a problem these days: Each year the regular old flu kills many thousands of people in the United States alone.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Developing a practical formulation could make a major difference because successfully controlling drywood termites requires more than simply having an insecticide that kills them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Marymount, which lost to No. 2 Mater Dei on Saturday in the championship of the Dave Mohs tournament, received 27 kills from Northwestern-bound Makenna Barnes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"It is a mighty joke, is it not? Whither thou goest, there I must go. Even if it kills me."
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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The remnants of that industry are still clear to see, with the bones of whales killed long ago for their oil littering part of the shore.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Earlier this month, he killed a water bill that would have given Native tribes a larger role in the state’s water policies.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Ebola, which is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and can cause severe internal and external bleeding and organ failure, has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the last 50 years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
While security experts fear they might have been killed, Salvadoran and U.S. officials believe all four survived the attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The tall pine tree that I could spot a block away to lead me home, the flower bed Dad killed every year, the Visionary sitting on the front porch...
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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There were 86 building collapses between 2009 and 2019, killing an estimated 200 people, according to a report by the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
And he goes, “Hey, man, you’re killing, bro. You’re having good sets. Next time I’m gonna give you eight minutes. You’re not gonna take pictures anymore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
For Dimon, that starts with killing internal spin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Everyone in the auto industry already knew this and wondered why Tesla was killing off lucrative luxury models and not moving into potentially more profitable segments, such as larger SUVs and normal-looking pickups.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
The bus driver was a small shrew who didn’t bother much with discipline, as he was too busy trying to see far enough over the steering wheel to drive without killing anything.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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